ABSTRACT
At one of these Indian villages near this mission of San Diego the gentiles therein many times have been on the point of coming here to kill us all, [because] some soldiers went there and raped their women, and other soldiers who were carrying mail to Monterey turned their animals into their fields and they ate up their crops. Three other Indian villages about a league or a league and a half from here have reported the same thing to me several times. For this reason on several occasions when Father Francisco Dumetz or I have gone to see these Indian villages, as soon as they saw us they fled from their villages and fled to the woods or other remote places, and the only ones who remained in the village were some men and some very old women. The Christians here have told me that many of the gentiles of the aforesaid villages leave their huts and the crops which they gather from the lands around their villages, and go to the woods and experience hunger: They do this so the soldiers will not rape their women as they have already done so many times in the past. 1
